1 AND 2, OLD MARKET
1 AND 2, OLD MARKET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1229806
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, OLD MARKET
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, OLD MARKET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1229806
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, OLD MARKET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2, OLD MARKET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, OLD MARKET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wisbech
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 46055 09809
Details
WISBECH OLD MARKET TF 4609 (East Side) 6/217 Nos. 1 and 2 GV II*
Two late C18 houses; No. 1, symmetrical five 'bays', No. 2, slightly recessed three 'bays'. Local amber brick with inter- locking roof tiles; slate roofs to three rear wings. Three storeys. End stacks and ridge stack. Parapet with stone copings and moulded cornice. Stone cills to all windows. Eight first floor, and six ground floor, twelve-paned, recessed, hung sash windows, in cambered gauged brick arches. Eight similar attic windows of six panes. Two matching doorcases in round- headed gauged brick arches with cast-iron glazing bars to fanlight. Wooden doorcase has fluted half-columns and frieze band. Doors with six raised and fielded panels. Stone steps to each entrance. Interior has two good original chimneypieces; cornice and dado to rear first floor room; panelled doors and shutters to windows. Open-string staircase with raking mahogony hand rail and plain balusters. Lantern above staircase with conical light. NMR (C. Gregory, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982. Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.499. VCH Cambs, p.243. Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus. Craddock and Walker, History of Wisbech, 1847. Fielden and Mawson, Arch. Wisbech Consultants' Report, 1974.
Listing NGR: TF4605509809
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48424
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Walker, N, Craddock, T, The History of Wisbech and the Fens, (1849)
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 243
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 499
Other
Fielden and Mawson Architects Wisbech Consultants Report, (1974)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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